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Virginia DOT image of I-95 crash and snow

Are You “De-Ranged” Enough to Drive an EV in the Winter?

It feels like Electric Vehicle buyers get about as much information as COVID vaccine recipients, which is not much. Like the side effects of ownership. Loss of value, high insurance costs, pricey repairs for minor accident damage, loss of range in the cold of winter.

Palate Cleanser

Palate Cleanser – What? You want HEAT In the Winter in New England? Weaklings…

Heh! A wee bit a cheeky tweeking from staunch hardcore NE Yankees: It’s a bit different for me now – I used to really love the colder weather and I generally had no problems in going outside in a T-Shirt and shorts to do something active (as long as the wind was no more than …

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snow heavy trees

Hello, Winter!

We have had the good fortune of a warmer winter. It has been wet (very wet), but mostly rain and not snow in the southern part of New Hampshire. That has changed as it must. Winter always comes calling, and it often asks for a heavy price.

Eco-Socialists

Science or Scam

Panic! The sky is falling and all our coastal cities will be under water in ten years! Wait, that was predicted twenty some years ago wasn’t it? Now, though, yet another environmental group decided to block morning traffic coming to work in NYC because the “city will be under water by 2200.”  So is the …

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Snowy road Image NH DOT

Snow!

It is that time of year, and we are in the middle of a Nor’easter, but it is damp, wet, and miserable for most of us, but not cold enough to snow. Not so, along New Hampshire’s Kancamangus Highway where yesterday, they got the white stuff (Racist!).

Eversource Outage map NH NE

Rising to Darkness and the Dulcet Tones of…Generators

Strong winds caused numerous outages across the northeast last night, with at least 23,000 customers in New Hampshire losing power. Ours went out just before 2:30 am. I woke up, noticed, then went back to sleep. But it was mighty cold when I got up a few hours later.